Health Visitor

Somerset Council; Glastonbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Travel across Somerset

Job summary

Somerset Council in Glastonbury is seeking a Health Visitor to lead a local Public Health Nursing team, delivering preventative health services to children, families and the wider community. You will coordinate staffing, supervise interventions, and support professional development.

This permanent, 30-hour-per-week role requires safeguarding expertise, strong leadership, and fluency in English. Salary ranges £39,959–£48,117 per annum pro-rata with travel across Somerset and 30 days’ annual leave.

Qualifications

• Registered Health Visitor with valid registration.
• Public Health Specialist Practitioner degree or equivalent.
• Experience in safeguarding and child protection policies.
• Proven leadership and team-management ability.
• Ability to plan education delivery and manage caseloads.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate a Health Visiting team delivering preventative care.
• Provide professional leadership and supervise staff.
• Support development, appraisal and ongoing training.
• Collaborate with partners across health, education and social care.
• Maintain records per NMC guidelines and local policy.

Skills

Public Health Strategy

Child Protection Procedures

Clinical Leadership

English Proficiency

Team Leadership

Education

Health Visitor Registration

Public Health Specialist Practitioner

Tools

IT Competence

Job description

Closing date: 11/10/2026

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum, pro-rata for 30 hours per week.

This role will be based in Glastonbury.

Role Summary

The Health Visitor plays a pivotal leadership role in managing a local Public Health Nursing team and delivering high-quality, preventative health services to children, families, and the wider community. You'll be responsible for the effective coordination of staffing, oversight of clinical interventions, and the development of team members through supervision, appraisal, and ongoing professional development.

What You’ll Do - Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring the co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care to promote positive health.
• Provide professional and team leadership to manage a defined team delivering care to a geographical caseload/population.
• Work with vulnerable children and families in line with national and local policies relating to safeguarding children and provide specialist support and advice to children, families and schools.
• Work in partnership with other agencies, particularly health services, education and social care, to manage and co-ordinate programmes of intervention.
• Attend professionally related working groups, as appropriate, to help develop and agree local policies and protocols, and respond to local health needs.

Essential

What we’re looking for – knowledge, experience & skills

• Demonstrate working knowledge of the Public Health and Preventative Strategy.
• Working knowledge of child protection procedures and policies.
• Proven clinical and managerial leadership ability, or prepared to take a leadership course.
• Registered Health Visitor.
• Public Health Specialist Practitioner – Degree or Post Graduate diploma (or equivalent qualification pre-1988).
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Ability to organise and deliver education on a 1-1 or group setting.
• Able to have responsibility for a caseload and delegate appropriately, with ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Ability to lead teams – Public Health Nurses, Staff nurses and Assistant Practitioners.
• Audit and research skills, report writing skills and IT competent.
• Maintain records as per NMC Guidelines/local policy.
• Ability to speak fluent English as stated in Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016).

Additional Information

• This is a permanent role working 30 hours a week. The role involves frequent travel across rural areas of Somerset, and lone working on occasion.
• 30 days of annual leave (additional to bank holidays)
• Regretfully, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. We are only able to proceed with candidates who already have the right to work in the UK without the need for visa sponsorship
• Job description: AG0971 Health Visitor.pdf

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact Rebecca Humphrey via email at [e-mail].